Things to do in Spite...

When your Shadowy is 31-40

21-30 41-50

Rob a honey den

Prisoner's honey, the drug of choice in Fallen London, isn't cheap. It follows that its purveyors can afford to spare a little cash.
Unlocked with Shadowy 32 (No longer available with Shadowy 47)

Shadows and honey

It will take stealth and speed, and you'll have to bribe a customer to fake a honey-addled seizure, but the honey pot is almost within your grasp.
(Shadowy challenge; high-risk at 34, modest at 38)

Reward spoiler

Sticky fingers

The honey business is booming and your appearance as a new customer is not remarked upon. Your accomplice's honey-addled seizure goes off marvellously, and you proceed unseen to the back rooms of the den. It is the work of a few moments to find the honeypot, unimaginatively hidden in the pantry, and slip it under your hat. You makes your way back to the room with the fading-couches and kindly offer to take your accomplice, now frothing gently, to a physician.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 18 x Prisoner's Honey

Failure spoiler

The empty honey pot

The honey business is booming enough that your appearance as a new customer is not remarked upon. Your accomplice's honey-addled seizure goes off marvellously, and you proceed unseen to the back rooms of the den. It is the work of a few moments to find the honeypot, unimaginatively hidden in the pantry. Alas this den has very nearly run dry of its sticky treasure, and you are left empty-handed after you pay off your associate for his undeniably fine performance.

Shadowy increase

The curate and his sister

Does the Melancholy Curate have a connection with St Dunstans?

You probably won't pick up more than a few minor clues here. But perhaps it was worth the trip.
Unlocks with Persuasive 33, Intrigue: The curate and his sister 1, Investigating… 7 (No longer available with Persuasive 48)

Ask around about the Curate

He's distinctive enough. At least he'll be recognised. If only you can convince the surly, sneering, gin-raddled parishioners to talk.
(Persuasive challenge; chancy at 41)

Reward spoiler

'He's been seen…'

The Curate has been known to visit St Dunstan's for midnight services. Curiously, you can't seem to find dates posted for these services. And your informant isn't keen to say any more. But there are strange stories told about St Dunstan's. Visitors with hooded lanterns. Coaches drawn by horses with muffled hooves. And the brasswork in the church is of exceptional quality: it shines as bright as the day it was made…

Persuasive increase
Gain: 21 x Cryptic Clue
Investigating… increase

Failure spoiler

'What business is it of yours?'

Strangers asking questions are not welcome in the parish of St Dunstan's. You retreat to better-lit streets.

Persuasive increase

Burgle a jeweller's shop

The jeweller's shop is just asking to be burgled. It would almost be rude not to.
Unlocked with Shadowy 33 (No longer available with Shadowy 48)

The thief's road

Up on to the rooftops, and in through the skylight with jemmy and sack.
(Shadowy challenge; modest at 38)

Reward spoiler

The shadow with the sack

The unfortunate jeweller's security measures can hardly be expected to cope with a thief of your talents. There is a vertiginous moment as you leap between rooftop gables, but otherwise the job proceeds smoothly: oiling and prising open the skylight, barely slowing down for two locked doors on your way downstairs. Much of the expensive stock is locked in a sturdy safe, but you help yourself to a fine display of pearls and leave as quietly as you came. The whole affair took no more than fifteen minutes.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 37 x Moon-pearl
An occurrence! Your 'That Which Lives in Shadow' Quality is now 1!
Something else will happen soon… don't worry. All shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

Failure spoiler

Safes. Why did it have to be safes?

All that effort breaking in through the rooftop skylight and now you are faced with a shop entirely bereft of valuables and an enticing safe, which is for the moment beyond your ability to crack. There is little to be done other than climb back out through the skylight and curse the patience of a jeweller who carefully locks away his entire stock every evening.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Case a mansion

The homes of the gentry call to burglars like honey to dreamers. A Stuttering Fence has given you a promising address.
Unlocked with Shadowy 35 (No longer available with Shadowy 50)

Valets and scullery maids

A servant's disguise should give you access to the grand residence. (requires Shadowy)
(Shadowy challenge; chancy at 38)

Reward spoiler

'Burn these letters? Immediately my lord…'

Your disguise is entirely convincing, and you are free to wander the halls of the wealthy as you please. You complete a thorough survey of the (admittedly formidable) security arrangements and are about to leave when you are commanded to dispose of some incriminating letters. Wonderful! Even if you never return, the visit has already been profitable. You also notice a fine collection of antiquities for possible later removal.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 7 x Stolen Correspondence

Failure spoiler

Shovels and backache

Your disguise as a servant is entirely convincing, and you almost get in through the back door of the grand house when the mistress of the place gathers all the junior servants together. She has admirably philanthropic plans involving a mushroom-kitchen for the poor and intends to turn the formal gardens over to fungal produce. You get a sinking feeling, and spend the next two days performing hard groundwork and learning fungal cultivation. You slope off, dejected, before you develop calluses.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Circumspect criminal

Alternatively, you could simply observe the place.
(Watchful challenge; high-risk at 37, straightforward at 48)

Reward spoiler

Glittering society event

The household seem to be preparing to host some society event: there are many tradesmen bringing their wares, and some sort of marquee is being erected in the garden. You get a solid idea of how the security arrangements for the house work, and grab a box of candles that were left unguarded near the potting shed.

Watchful increase
13 x Foxfire Candle

Failure spoiler

You are coming to dislike butlers

The senior servants of the house are watchful for suspicious characters. That seems to include you, and you are repeatedly moved on. You decide to give up before the Constables become involved.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

Burgle a Glim assayer's office

You have no idea how Glim, the glittering material that falls into the Unterzee, is assayed. But you don't need to know to burgle the place.
Unlocked with Shadowy 38 (No longer available with Shadowy 53)

Villainy and daring

Those who certify and assess Glim are appointed by the Masters of the Bazaar. Most burglars wouldn't dare. Would you?
(Shadowy challenge; modest at 44)

Reward spoiler

A distressing reputation is not enough

The tales of what happens to those who rob the Masters' operations are sobering. It seems, however, that these tales are most of what protects the assaying office and you find it a simple matter to sneak in and help yourself to the samples under scrutiny.

Which is fine: but your attention is drawn by the long covered cages in the workroom. A sleepy squeak pricks your curiosity enough to lift the cover. Apparently the assayer is keeping mice and weasels in his laboratory. Odd. But not your problem.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 42 x Glim
Daring increase

Rare Reward spoiler

A temporary closure

When you get to the office, Constables are restraining the staff, who moan and thrash in some sort of ecstatic dance. You wait for them to pull away in the Black Mariah before heading inside. There's nothing much in there now. No glim, no weasels, no mice. Just what the assayers carved into the walls before they were carried off.

Shadowy increase
Gain: 8x Maniac's Prayer

Failure spoiler

Surely they can't be guards?

The tales of what happens to those who rob the Masters' operations are sobering. You expect there to be little in real security, and indeed the locks are cheap and the doors flimsy. However, what you weren't expecting was a workroom full of caged mice and weasels. They make a squeaking, chattering racket as you enter, which attracts a nearby Constable. You leave hastily, empty handed.

Shadowy increase
Suspicion increase

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